Improvement in corn-planters



timid iat5 GRANVILLE J VAUGHT,

or HANLY, KENTUCKY.

Letters Patent No. 113,819, dated April 18, 1,871`

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

The Schedule referred to in these lLetters: Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it 'may concern.-

, Be it known that I, Rev.` GRANVILLE J. VAUGHT, of Hanly, in the county of J essamiue and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corn-Planter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in .Which- Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of my improved machine taken through the line x x, iig. 2. Figure 2 -is a front view of the same, partly in section, through the lines y y and z z, iig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts..

about four and a half feet lon'g and nine inches wide,

and to the rear part ot' which are attached the handles B, by which the planter is guided.

O is the seed-hopper, the side-boards of which project downward and are attaehed'to the side bars of the frame A.

The bottom of the hopper is made inclined toward one side, and-has a hole, c', formed through its lower part, through which the seed passes to the droppingwheel.

D 'isa slide tting and moving upon the lower part of the bottom of the hopper O, so that it may be adjusted to cover the egress-hole c to preveutthe escape Iof theseed when turning, or when passing from place tb place. l

The slide D is operated by a handle, E, passing out through a hole in the rear side of the hopper (l, and projecting into Ysuch a position that it may be conveniently reached and operated by the driver.`

E is the dropping-wheel, which is attached to a shaft, G, the journals of which revolve in bearings attached to the frame A beneath the hopper G.

H isa guard passing around theV lower, forward, audupper part of the dropping-*wheel F, fitting into the space between 4the said wheel F and the bottom of the'hopper C, and having a hole formed through its upper part corresponding with the egress-hole of the hopper C. h

The guard His designed to keep the seed 1n the cup or cavity of the dropping-wheel until the revolution of said wheel has brought .said cavity directly over a h'ole iu the lower part ot' the guard H, which hole communicates directly with the upper end of the conductor-spout or tube I, which conducts the seed into the furrow in the rear of the furrowinge low.

p The guard H I prefer to make of leather or other similar substance, to prevent it from injuring the seed.

The cavity or cup of the dropping-wheel F has a screw screwed into it in the bottom of its cavity or cup, so that, by turning 'the said screw out or in, the size of the said cavity may be decreased or increased, according as less or more seed may be required to be dropped for a hill.

To the shaft G is attached a drum or long pulley, around which passes a belt, K, which also passes around a cone-pulley, L, attached to the shaft M, so

that, by adjusting the belt K upon the said couepulley L, the distance apart of the hills may be regnlated at will.

'lhe shaft M revolves in bearings attached to the forward part of the frame A, and to it is attached the' drive-wheel N, which is made of Such a size as to bear upon the surface of the ground, so that the droppiugdevice may be operated by the advance of the machine.-

O is the furrowing-plow, which is attached to the lower end of the standard P, the upper end of which is attached to the side bar of the frame A.

To the other sidebar of the frame A, a little in the rear of the iurrowing-plow and conductor-spout, is attached the standard Q of the covering-plow.R, by which the furrow opened by the plow O is tilled, and the seed covered. f

S is a V-shaped scraper, which is attached to the lower end of the standard T, the upper end of which is attached to the side bar of the frame A, directly in line with the fnr'rowing-plow O P and conductorspout I, but in the rear of they covering-plow Q R.

The standard 'l is adjustablyattached to .the

sidebar o'f the frame A, so that it may be conven iently raised and lowered to adjust the scraperS to remove more or less of the soil above the seed, so as to leave the seed covered uniformly and toany desired depth.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Leiters struofed, arranged, and operating snbstantally'as Pateni'fherein shown and described,'and for the purpose seb An improved corn-planter,- eon'sisting of the frame forth. v A, lhandles B, seed-hopper 0, dropping-wheel F, GRANVILLE J. VAUGHT. guard H, shaft; G, drum or long pulley J, bell: K,

cone-pulley L, shaf.` M, drive-wheel N, furrowing- .Witnesses:

covering-plow Q R, Griso` Fam,

DUDLEY'AKIN.

plow O P, conductor-spout I, and adjustable scraper S T, said "parts being oon 

